Almost half a year later, I am back…
Every month since the end of 2011, I attempted to post. I got excited about topics, started typing
and then… never finished! Now that I am
in the plane and have absolutely no place to go (since I am in the middle
seat), I realized this would be a good time, to start AND finish at least one
blog, my first blog of 2012.
Our year started with an ambitious decision of selling 1261
Grove Street apartment. Our plan was to
put our house on the market by mid January.
Well… we didn’t quiet realize how much work needed to be done to make
that happen especially when we had very demanding jobs. Therefore, our plan shifted a little and we
ended up putting our place on the market by the end of February. The difficult part is NOT emptying the house
to get it ready or living in a staged environment. The difficult part IS having to live in a
super organized and uncertain world – not in terms of physical organization but
more in terms of not knowing the next steps.
Uncertainty and the constant willingness to move forward to
the next step turn the whole process into a test – test of patience, test of
support to each other, test of being realistic, test of objectivity… At every
step of the process, one needs to step back to see the full picture from an
outsider’s point of view… When selling,
you try to find the right person and the right amount. When buying, you try not to jump into the
first thing you see so that you have a place to call “home”.
1261 Grove Street found its new owner at the end of March
and we officially shut that door on April 12th, capturing all the
great memories and leaving behind all the sour ones… We moved into our tiny little “shoe box” on
April 8th and since then we have been looking forward to our next
step – our new home. At this stage, we
are even more challenged to get A’s on all those tests that I mentioned
earlier! We want to find THE place, we
don’t want to be in a fierce competition and we don’t want to be in our shoe box
for too long… Given all this, we
constantly need to step back and tell each other that the right place is out
there and we will find it. Believe me…
it is really easy to say but VERY hard to apply… Especially in such a
competitive market!
As stressful as it is, we are making sure to get the best
out of it. Our trip to Mexico was
definitely great where we were able to relax and “check-out” from the world to
“check-in” to our little bubble. When
life gets so busy with all the outside events, days go by without you
realizing… You want to stop time, but it
doesn’t listen to you. So these trips
where we have no connection with the outside world give us the best opportunity
in slowing down that pace. I have all
these plans for this year and we are almost already half done with the
year. Pretty crazy, if you ask me!
One of my goals for this year is a steadier blog site… So some of the topics that you should expect
– and that I would hopefully deliver will be:
·
Energy has its limit!
·
Stress – Our friend or our enemy?
·
Finding time to be creative
·
Taking care of your most important asset – YOU
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